Agency (philosophy)

  1. Migrant construction workers faced precarity but still found meaning
    Study of African migrant construction workers in Portugal examining how meaningful work persists despite precarious employment, structural barriers, and inadequate labor protections through.
  2. Suprematist architecture is presented as speculative world-making
    Study reframes Soviet Suprematist architecture as systematic speculative inquiry into cosmic space and post-human inhabitation, transcending conventional architectural constraints.
  3. WADA may need a public interest test in anti-doping decisions
    Analysis of whether the World Anti-Doping Agency should apply public interest tests to discretionary decisions, examining publicness frameworks and governance implications for anti-doping.
  4. Symbolic power shapes which nature values become legitimate
    A conceptual framework integrating symbolic power and socially endorsed beliefs explains how values of nature gain legitimacy in sustainability governance, illustrated through Japanese fisheries.
  5. Community practices reduced gendered division of labour
    Ethnographic study of how institutional practices—uniform pay, shared childcare, gender quotas—reshape gender divisions in paid and unpaid labour at community level.
  6. Swiss cereal cooperative balances market pressures and cooperative values
    Case study of a Swiss cereal cooperative navigating tensions between market pressures and cooperative principles. Demonstrates how deliberate institutional adaptation sustains collective values.
  7. Nicaragua’s popular economy is shaped by state and cooperative contradictions
    Examination of Nicaragua's popular economy, its role in welfare developmentalism, and contradictions between cooperative movements and state institutions supporting alternative economic organization.
  8. NIH outlines HIV research priorities through 2026
    National Institutes of Health outlines comprehensive research strategy combining implementation science, basic research, and partnerships to end HIV in the U.S. by 2030.
  9. Community support helped families manage online learning challenges
    Study of how socioeconomically disadvantaged families adapted to online learning during COVID-19 and the critical role community organizations played in providing support.
  10. Third spaces supported women leaders’ identity reflection and leadership practice
    Comparative study of how third spaces support women K-12 educational leaders in critical identity reflection and antiracist leadership practice across diverse contexts.
  11. Men sought more advice and did better in the residency match
    Study reveals how gender differences in help-seeking behavior affect medical residency matching outcomes, showing men seek more independent advice about algorithms than women, leading to better.
  12. Main idea instruction may be misaligned with college reading
    Examine whether main idea instruction in postsecondary developmental literacy curricula aligns with academic reading demands, questioning its pedagogical validity and advocating for complex.
  13. Turkish drug recalls were driven by contamination, sterility, and safety issues
    Systematic analysis of 133 drug recalls by Turkish regulatory agency 2018-2024, identifying 14 recall reasons with Class A and B classifications predominating.
  14. Architectural laboratories can support material collaboration
    Explore how architectural laboratories restore material agency and resist reductionist approaches through situated engagement and distributed human-nonhuman collaboration in design practice.
  15. Bekasi labor candidates split votes, but coordination sometimes concentrated support
    Examines how Indonesia's fragmented labor movement achieved electoral success in Bekasi's 2019 legislative election through cross-union cooperation despite structural divisions and institutional.
  16. AI feedback may not fit learners’ revision processes
    Analysis of AI feedback tools' alignment with revision process requirements, identifying tensions between feedback immediacy and learner cognitive needs, agency preservation, and task authenticity.
  17. Italian parents link climate change with daily family life
    Explore how Italian parents experience and navigate climate change through their parenting roles, emotional responses, family routines, and the tension between personal agency and global helplessness.
  18. Congressional budget hearings used four politeness strategies
    Examine how Philippine congressional budget hearings use politeness strategies to balance authority, accountability, and institutional hierarchy in legislative proceedings.
  19. Virtual reality training showed mixed effects for children with executive dysfunction
    Mixed-methods case series examining virtual reality-based executive function training for primary-aged students with executive dysfunction, with focus on presence and agency mechanisms.
  20. Digital spatial notation broadens concert presentation
    Explore how digital spatial notation functions as audiovisual art in contemporary electroacoustic music, transforming audience engagement and concert experience design.